Word: abba
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...indeed, there is a tonic for struggling nations to be had from winning the annual Europe-wide contest of camp and kitsch that has produced such legends as Abba and was won, last year, by a Finnish rock band in monster costumes, then few needed it as much as the Serbs did. Days before Saturday's Eurovision finals, the country almost plunged back into bad old days, as the Serbian parliament chose as its Speaker the ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic. Nikolic, a former vice-premier in the government of Slobodan Milosevic, caused an outrage when he vowed...
...Palestinians could have been living for the past 40 years in a state of their own. The Palestinians could have bargained for a homeland in 1967. But once again the Arabs failed to grasp the offer, ''to test us and be astonished by our generosity,'' as Abba Eban put it. That is disingenuous. The Palestinians obviously missed an opportunity. But the Israelis made it clear after the Six-Day War that
...world is getting two new pilgrimage sites: an ABBA museum is set to open in Stockholm in '08, and a Bruce Lee theme park is under construction near Hong Kong. If they build them, will people come? A look at three of the world's top celebrity shrines--and one failure...
...ironically titled “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’.” Featuring a piano riff co-written and performed by Elton John, the piece is as masterfully derivative and flamboyant as anything on the Sisters’ previous album, sounding like vintage ABBA, Billy Joel, and Bee-Gees all at once. It’s also reassuring to know the Sisters haven’t lost any of their sense of humor or their fascination for the sexually explicit. (It’s a small marvel “Ta-Dah?...
...work outside of a dance club. But keeping in mind that pop listeners are used to time-released thrills every 30 seconds or so - you know, hooks - she's thrown in about 20 of them. Some are immediately recongnizable, like "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", the Abba meringue in the middle of it all, but others are so weird and pulsing that they earn the word exotic. So for a pop listener, the thing you know draws you into the thing you don't know, and at the end you feel a little cooler just for having listened...